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jlf1961 -> RE: "all males are superior to all females" (6/24/2008 1:52:08 PM)
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Female dominated societies are nothing new to human civilization. In fact, some of the greatest empires in history had a female dominated structure.
Native American tribes were matriarchal in nature. Since it was the woman's task to maintain the camp, they had all the control in the family structure. If a woman decided she no longer wanted a brave, all she had to do was put his personal belongings outside the lodge and they were divorced.
In the Japanese empire, the husband had control of very little in the home, the wife controlled the finances, the way the children were raised, and granted, while a samuri lord had the right to kill his wife if she displeased him (dishonor due to her adultery, her family, etc) he needed to have ample proof of the fact before doing so, otherwise HER family had the right and obligation to kill him.
Egypt had women as rulers, as did some of the greek city states, middle eastern city states.
Those are two examples, and there are others. During the middle ages, if a man had no heir, then the woman inheritated, which essentially gave her complete control of the lands her dead husband controlled, as well as his men at arms, etc. There were many powerful women in the middle ages, including the Borgia women, which were powerful and deadly.
During the middle ages, some of these women actually became powerful enough to be threats to neighboring lords, and had to be eliminated.
Thus, it is not so much as to which is the superior sex, but who has the power to maintain that superiority.
I refuse to relinquish control of my life to anyone, let alone a woman, and by staying by that decision, I usually make a lot of enemies. But then I have known strong willed women who would run a pitch fork up a man's ass that tried to dominate her. It is all in the personality of the person. One is either superior or inferior, seldom nuetral.
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